Criminal cases fabricated in 1951–52 to accuse members of the Georgian SSR
The Mingrelian affair, or Mingrelian case (Russian: Мингрельское дело, mingrel’skoe delo; Georgian: მეგრელთა საქმე, megrelt’a sak’me), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in 1951 and 1952 in order to accuse several members of the Georgian SSR Communist Party of Mingrelian extraction of secession and collaboration with the Western powers.
The Mingrelianaffair, or Mingrelian case (Russian: Мингрельское дело, mingrel’skoe delo; Georgian: მეგრელთა საქმე, megrelt’a sak’me), was a series of...
The Mingrelians (Mingrelian: მარგალეფი, romanized: margalepi; Georgian: მეგრელები, romanized: megrelebi) are an indigenous Kartvelian-speaking ethnic...
[among Georgians]" (pp. 46–47). Charkviani was accused during the MingrelianAffair (1952), a conspiracy aimed against Lavrenti Beria's protégés in Georgia...
The report resulted in a commission by the Communist Party to study the affair. In October, the commission estimated that of the roughly 2,000 survivors...
The Georgian affair of 1922 (Russian: Грузинское дело) was a political conflict within the Soviet leadership about the way in which social and political...
(pdf format) Loren Graham, Chapter 6. "Stalinist Ideology and the Lysenko Affair", in Science in Russia and the Soviet Union (New York: Cambridge University...
industrial wreckers took place in Ukraine. In 1951, he initiated the Mingrelianaffair, a purge of the Georgian branch of the Communist Party which resulted...
(World War II). Deportations of whole nationalities. Doctors' plot and Mingrelianaffair. Manifestations of personality cult: songs, city names and so on....
days later, on March 27, the Soviet People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) arrested 16 Polish opposition political leaders who had been invited...
The Leningrad affair, or Leningrad case (Russian: Ленинградское дело, Leningradskoye delo), was a series of criminal cases fabricated in the late 1940s–early...
Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. Though the killings...
Morozov [ru], a student at Moscow University's Institute of International Affairs. Her father did not like Morozov, who was Jewish, though he never met him...
Vyacheslav Molotov, previously the Soviet Union's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Joseph Stalin's health had begun to deteriorate towards the end of the...
Baryshnikov 2002: "An explanation followed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland about the position of the military leadership: 'Is it not better...
would swap them for Paulus? Were they worse than Yakov?" Soviet Foreign Affairs Minister Vyacheslav Molotov also recounted that Stalin refused to swap...
of the Cominform into an instrument to monitor and control the internal affairs of other Eastern Bloc parties. He also briefly considered converting the...
ended in 1939. In October 1940 the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), under its new chief Lavrentiy Beria, started a new purge that initially...
(1923–1934), later known as the NKVD (1934–1946), and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) in the final years. The Solovki prison camp, the first correctional...
was drunk, and talking about Alliluyeva's issues with Stalin's supposed affairs. The two parted ways and Alliluyeva returned to her residence. Events after...
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